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...and the Earth spins on
as Earths are wont
a while more.
A rather good while.
That's not so bad.

"suchness"
is the case
is the meaning
is all?

is the city:
the cars
the people
the trees
are?

Sitting here at the old folks' home solving crossword puzzles and thinking,
though I know that it's not really true,
that it's always been like this:
A mild melancholy
but the sun in my face.
And that all in all there are probably worse things.

found a dead bumblebee.
dead insects don't normally
feel, you know, like corpses, but
i almost wanted to bury the bumblebee.

You do not understand this poem ( Read more... )

He jumped from the third floor
although the building had twenty-nine.
Why?

Answer: The elevator was broken
and his doctor had warned him about stairs.
(The answer 'Why not' is not accepted.)

(ok, just gonna get this translated from swedish. writing anything substantial from scratch right now seems tough, but this should work ( Read more... )

The following quote is probably originally French (or if not, English), but here it's translated from a Swedish version quoted in the "Stewes skafferi" section of Skriva ("To Write") #6 2013:

>>This is a piece of writing advice from the German romantic Ludwig Börne: 'Force yourself to write for three days in a row, without being unnatural or ( Read more... )

Nu är det nästan midnatt, men jag undrar - för ett tag sedan, till exempel när jag började med det här lilla dagboksprojektet, hade det varit lika mörkt som det är nu? Det börjar bli senare på sommaren. Tiden går ( Read more... )

Arbetsdag och trött som fan. Det har jag också varit hela dagen, fått ägna mig åt fem-minuters power naps och tillfälligt brytande av det nya livet med snabbkaffedrickande (i och för sig bara en mugg) för att orka igenom någorlunda). Trots tröttheten till sist någorlunda framsteg med artikelöversättningen (eller, ja, workshopanteckningarna). Texten ( Read more... )